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Latina/o/x Education in Chicago
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Latina/o/x Education in Chicago

In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism. Contributors look at stories of student strength and resistance, the oppressive systems forced on Mexican American women, the criminalization of Puerto Ricans fighting for liberatory education, and other topics of educational significance. As they show, many harmful past practices remain the norm--or have become worse. Yet Latina/o/x communities and students persistently engage in transformative practices shaping new approaches to education that promise to reverberate not only in the city but nationwide. Insightful and enlightening, Latina/o/x Education in Chicago brings to light the ongoing struggle for educational equity in the Chicago Public Schools.

The Science of Shit Testing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

The Science of Shit Testing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 101-01-01
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  • Publisher: Conrad Riker

Are you tired of women's confusing behavior and mixed signals? Have you ever felt lost in understanding a woman's needs and desires? Do you want to learn the hidden language of women and use it to your advantage? If so, this book is for you! Discover how women instinctively test potential mates and learn the secret language of attraction, so you can: 1. Boost your confidence and charisma to make a lasting impression on women. 2. Master the art of body language and non-verbal cues to project dominance and leadership. 3. Understand the importance of emotional intelligence and communication in today's dating world. 4. Embrace your natural machismo traits while maintaining a balance with emotion...

The Awakening
  • Language: en

The Awakening

Christina is used to feeling invisible. Orphaned at the age of five, she can barely remember her parents. All that is left of them is a faint crumbled up picture and her mother's necklace, both left with her on the orphanage's doorstep. Passed around from foster home to foster home, the only stability in her life is her best friend, Sam. When a home finally seems possible, Christina finds her world turning upside down on her eighteenth birthday. Exactly who were her parents and exactly what is she if not human? Nicolas is next in line for the crown. His uncle has taken over since the King's passing, and once he steps down or his time comes to pass, it will be his responsibility to step forward. However, his world and that of the humans is in great danger. An army is being formed of those tired of hiding in the dark. They believe a world with them as rulers is far past due. Even though Nicolas has come to despise the mortals in his years of existence, he knows the only thing worse than their rule is the rule of his sister. But how on earth does his uncle think a swine of a girl such as Christina can possibly be their salvation?

The Civil Sphere in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Civil Sphere in Latin America

Illuminates hot button issues in contemporary Latin America from an intellectually radical perspective: a sociological theory of democracy as civil sphere.

The Teachers & Writers Guide to Classic American Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

The Teachers & Writers Guide to Classic American Literature

Published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative in association with The Library of America, The T&W Guide to Classic American Literature is an anthology of essays that provides rich and diverse approaches and insights to writers and teachers of writing at all levels. These include introducing third graders to Gertrude Stein, teaching Emily Dickinson's poetry to prisoners, and using the model of Henry David Thoreau's journals in the college classroom. The other authors discussed in this book are James Baldwin, Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Chandler, Stephen Crane, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry James, Herman Melville, Eugene O'Neill, Lorine Niedecker, Edgar Allan...

Brown in the Windy City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

Brown in the Windy City

Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America’s great cities. Through their experiences in the city’s central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernández demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.

To Measure the Sky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

To Measure the Sky

A quantitative yet accessible undergraduate introduction to the collection and analysis of observational data in optical and infrared astronomy.

Pink Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 499

Pink Gold

A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico. The "shrimp ladies," locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part of the economy built around this "pink gold.” Over time, they struggled to evolve from marginalized peddlers to local icons depicted in popular culture, even as they continue to work at an open-air street market. Pink Gold documents the shrimp traders' resilience and resourcefulness, from their early conflicts with the city, state, and federal authorities and forming a union, to carving out a physical space for a seafood market, and even engaging in conflicts with the Mexican mili...

THE WOMEN ENCYCLOPEDIA
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 777

THE WOMEN ENCYCLOPEDIA

Long live female empire, There's hope, The rise and rise of the female empire Inequality is the question...Are you the answer? Equality: ♀ = ♂, 3+1 wise women and the feminist dream, Woman Power, feminism activists, The power of women, No woman No... Nothing! The making of♀empire; It's males against the world (females); kiss inequality bye! Dowidzenia Inequality! Au revoir inequality! Auf wieder sehen violence! Assorted female activists; Do not give up! Victory is at hand "GOODBYE EVERYBODY; WE'VE GOT TO GO NOW, PROMISING NOT TO ROCK YOU AGAIN. LET EQUALITY PREVAIL IN THE WORLD." Signed & Sealed: INEQUALITY ASSOCIATES

Reauthoring Savage Inequalities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Reauthoring Savage Inequalities

Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings together scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to counter dominant narratives of urban educational environments. Using a community cultural wealth lens, contributors center the strategies, actions, and ways of knowing communities of color use to resist systemic oppression. So often, discussions of urban schooling are filled with stories of what Jonathan Kozol famously referred to as "savage inequalities" in his 1991 book of the same title—with tales of deficiency and despair. The counternarratives in this volume grapple with the inequalities highlighted by Kozol. Yet, in foregrounding lived experiences of educating and being educated in sch...